Policy paper

UK support to Ukraine: factsheet

Updated 28 February 2025

Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine poses a serious threat to UK prosperity and security. We are proud to be a leading partner in providing vital support to Ukraine.

In total, the UK has committed £12.8 billion for Ukraine:

• £7.8 billion in military support
• £5 billion in non-military support  

Diplomacy

• the UK-Ukraine 100 Year Partnership will foster broader and closer collaboration across nine key pillars, including defence and security, science and technology, and economy and trade (signed at leader-level on 16 January 2025)

• both leaders announced the intention to restart our bilateral Strategic Dialogue this year. The inaugural meetings took place in 2021

• the UK has supported UNGA resolutions condemning:
  • Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: 24 February 2025, 23 February 2023 and 2 March 2022
  • Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s critical energy infrastructure, including nuclear facilities: 24 July 2024
  • Russia’s attempted illegal annexation of 4 eastern Ukrainian regions: 12 October 2022
• we regularly use the UN Security Council to condemn Russia’s attacks on Ukraine and reaffirm that Russian disinformation, false accusations and violations of UNSC resolutions will not deter our steadfast support for Ukraine. This included the Foreign Secretary using the UK’s November 2024 Council Presidency to mark 1,000 days since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and reiterate the importance for the world of Putin failing

• we use the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) as a forum to hold Russia accountable:

  • we used the Reinforced Permanent Council to set out our continued support for Ukraine, highlight how Putin’s invasion had been a failure and that the OSCE was playing a crucial role in securing justice for victims and survivors (24 February 2025)

  • UK representatives sit across the table from the Russian delegation to deliver interventions every week, calling out malign Russian behaviour, combatting disinformation and isolating it diplomatically
  • we have supported the OSCE’s Support Programme for Ukraine financially and highlighted Russian human rights abuses in Ukraine via the OSCE’s formal fact-finding missions (known as the Moscow Mechanism), which have published 4 reports since February 2022
• we use the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to show UK support for the IAEA’s efforts towards nuclear safety in Ukraine, particularly at ZNPP (Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant). We hold Russia directly accountable for the nuclear safety and security challenges Ukraine now faces, including from Russia’s missile strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid

Military

• To date, the UK has committed £7.8 billion in military support for Ukraine since the invasion. Following the ERA loan agreement with Ukraine, the UK expects to provide £4.5 billion in support of Ukraine this year – more than in any previous year (16 January 2025)

• we will sustain £3 billion a year in military aid until 2030 to 2031 and for as long as it takes (announced on 10 July 2024)

• we will contribute £2.26 billion to the G7 ‘Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration’ Loans for Ukraine, to be repaid using profits generated by seized Russian assets. Legislation to facilitate the funds’ disbursement received Royal Assent on 16 January 2025

• we have sent around 400 different capabilities to Ukraine, with a new £150 million package including drones, tanks and air defence systems announced on 12 February 2025, a £225 million package including drones, boats and munitions announced on 19 December 2024, and 650 lightweight multirole missiles announced on 6 September 2024

• 30,000 new attack and surveillance drones will be delivered to Ukraine via the UK and Latvia-led drone coalition (9 January 2025). £7.5 million was invested by the UK (19 November 2024)

• Ukraine has received a new rapidly-developed bespoke air defence system called Gravehawk, jointly funded by the UK and Denmark. Two prototypes of the air defence capability system were tested in Ukraine in September, and a further 15 will follow this year (16 January 2025)

• a new UK-Ukraine Defence Industrial Support Treaty  will expand the range of military equipment that can be funded through £3.5 billion of UK Export Finance-guaranteed loans (signed on 19 July 2024)

• we have trained over 51,000 Ukrainian personnel in the UK under Operation INTERFLEX and the training scheme has been extended until at least the end of 2025

• as part of Operation INTERFLEX, we will train 180 Ukrainian soldiers to be combat mental resilience practitioners on the frontlines in 2025 – nearly double the 100 trained in 2024 (28 December 2024)

• a £20 million uplift in funding supports wounded Ukrainian troops through the UK’s Project Renovator. The project has been repairing and upgrading a military rehabilitation hospital in Ukraine and providing training to Ukrainian surgeons, doctors and nurses (24 February 2025)

• we administer the International Fund for Ukraine to procure military equipment: over £1.3 billion has been pledged to the International Fund for Ukraine to date, including for a new £300 million ammunition order (announced on 10 July 2024)

Non-military

• the UK’s non-military commitments to Ukraine since the start of the invasion come to £5 billion. This includes:
  • £4.1 billion in fiscal support through World Bank loan guarantees to bolster Ukraine’s economic stability and support vital public services. This includes a multi-year commitment announced at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in 2023
  • £977 million committed in bilateral assistance to date. We will provide £282 million in bilateral assistance for 2024 to 2025, to fund humanitarian, energy, stabilisation, reform, recovery and reconstruction programmes

Humanitarian

• the UK is providing at least £120 million in humanitarian assistance through to the end of financial year 2024 to 2025, bringing our total humanitarian contribution to £477 million for Ukraine and the region since the start of the full-scale invasion

• £15 million, delivered through UNHCR and UNICEF, will support those most in need as temperatures in Ukraine plummet (announced on 17 December 2024)

• we have provided £8.6 million to HALO Trust for demining and we have extended HALO Trust’s contract for 2025 to 2026, providing a further £4.3 million to support their work in Ukraine. Our demining efforts supported the clearance of over 495,000 square metres of land (May 2022 to December 2024)

Recovery and reconstruction

• the UK co-hosted the London Ukraine Recovery Conference in 2023, raising over $60 billion

• war risk insurance is being provided through the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), part of the World Bank group, and through the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to boost inward investment into Ukraine

• to date, UK Export Finance has issued over £500 million in support of critical projects in Ukraine – covering reconstruction, energy and defence

• through our development finance institution, British International Investment (BII), we are working in partnership with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to make trade finance available to support critical imports and exports to and from Ukraine. BII intend to provide up to £30 million in finance  (11 September 2024)

• our Good Governance Fund for Ukraine, a £38 million 3-year technical assistance programme, counters corruption and supports reform

• a new £50 million economic recovery programme will unlock hundreds of millions of pounds worth of private lending to bolster the growth and resilience of small and medium businesses in Ukraine (£40 million announced 12 January 2025, £10 million boost announced 5 February 2025)

Energy

• overall, the UK has committed over £400 million for energy security and resilience in Ukraine through grant, in-kind support and loan guarantees

• as part of this, we have committed £84 million to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund to support repairs, protection and power generation

• our most recent commitment to the UESF was made by the Prime Minister, when he announced £20 million to support emergency energy needs (17 December 2024)

• this builds on the £20 million to support essential repairs and protection to the power network (announced 11 September 2024)

• UK Export Finance has concluded negotiations to provide £181 million of support to pay Urenco to supply enriched uranium to help power Ukraine and maintain its independence from Russian fuel (18 July 2024)

• we have committed £17 million for a second round of the UK’s Innovate Ukraine Green Energy Competition, bringing our total investment to £33 million. This will support UK and Ukrainian innovators to help rebuild a greener and more resilient energy grid (5 February 2025)

Sanctions

• the UK has sanctioned over 2,200 individuals and entities, over 2,000 of which have been sanctioned since Russia’s full-scale invasion

• UK, US and EU sanctions have deprived Russia of over $450 billion in revenue since February 2022, equivalent to nearly 3 more years of funding for the invasion

• sanctions have plunged Russia’s $10 billion investment in its shadow fleet into crisis. Since July, we have sanctioned 129 oil tankers, 9 LNG carriers and 7 vessels involved in the transport of military goods. The vast majority of sanctioned shadow fleet vessels are idling, unable to trade

• sanctions are increasing costs and delays and reducing equipment quality. The cost of components has risen by 30% for the Russian defence sector. Sanctions have prevented Russia expanding military supplies to the battlefield, despite extra investment and enormous military losses

• this government has imposed sanctions against:

  • over 100 targets, including 40 oil tankers aiding Putin’s illegal war in Ukraine and Russia’s military supply chains – our largest package of sanctions in over two years (24 February 2025)

  • several high-profile individuals with links to Putin’s inner circle, further constraining Russia’s war machine (14 February 2025)

  • 2 of Russia’s 4 largest oil companies, the so-called ‘energy majors’, disrupting Russia’s oil revenue streams and reducing its capacity to continue funding the war (10 January 2025)

War crimes and justice

• the UK announced £4.5 million of new funding to support Ukraine’s domestic war crimes investigations, bringing our total contribution to £10.7 million (29 December 2024)

• we have also given an additional £2.3 million to the International Criminal Court

• the UK is an active member of the ‘core group’ scoping options for achieving accountability for the crime of aggression

• we are a founding member of the International Register of Damage to support claims by Ukrainians who have suffered losses as a result of the war

Trade

• the UK-Ukraine Digital Trade Agreement entered into force facilitating duty-free digital content trade (1 September 2024)

• the UK-Ukraine TechBridge delivers projects in mutual trade, investment, innovation research and digital skills development

• our City-Ukraine Hub leverages UK expertise to deliver capacity building projects

• our military aid and insurance through the UK-developed Unity facility has supported the Black Sea maritime corridor and enabled Ukraine to keep exporting its goods.  Ukraine is currently on track to export all of its 2024 harvest – crucial for global food security and Ukraine’s economy

• UK-Ukraine Political, Free Trade and Strategic Partnership Agreement enables UK businesses to benefit from tariff free trade on all goods until 31 March 2029 (tariffs on eggs and poultry removed until 31 March 2026) (8 February 2024)

For further information visit the Department for Business and Trade’s Ukraine page.

Ukrainians in the UK

• 219,400 Ukrainians have arrived in the UK, including 160,500 through Homes for Ukraine (as of 30 December 2024)

• the Ukraine Permission Extension (UPE) scheme opened on 4 February 2025 and provides an additional 18 months permission and a continuation of the same rights and entitlements for Ukrainians in the UK on the Ukraine schemes (announced 26 November 2024)

Contact: fcdo.correspondence@fcdo.gov.uk